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While musical theatre buffs have been grabbing their popcorn and choc tops, ready to spend some time at the movies, Ian Nisbet asks whether these new movie adaptations of Broadway favourites do justice to the original works.

Presenting a collective of fabulous songs made famous by jazz diva Julie London, Fat Lady Productions and singer Steph Acraman will take this year’s Adelaide Fringe patrons on a delightful journey of discovery with Nice Girls…Don’t Stay For Breakfast.

Producers Howard Panter and John Frost have announced the full cast for the 2015 season of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, which will play at the Sydney Lyric Theatre from 11 April and the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne from 12 June.

Cabaret meets wacky wine tasting in the one-woman performance The Show Must Goon, which two-woman theatre company Four Stripes is premiering at the 2015 Adelaide Fringe.

Suzie doesn’t know how many tears might be in a bottle of gin but she intends to do her best to find out. She’ll be helped by the audience as they join her for an evening of wine tasting and anecdotes about love, lust, lubricant and liquor.

As a conscientious objector who has refused mandatory military service, independent multidisciplinary theatre maker Nassim Soleimanpour is forbidden to leave his native Iran, but this has not daunted the playwright. In his stunningly different work White Rabbit Red Rabbit, he has created a potent entity to take his voice around the globe.

Opera Australia Artistic Director Lyndon Terracini AM and theatre producer John Frost AM today (February 3) announced the final lead cast member and the ensemble cast for their new production of Cole Porter’s musical comedy Anything Goes, which will tour Australia this year.

Guy Edmonds and Haiha Le are playing a newly wed couple in David Williamson’s latest play Dream Home at the Ensemble Theatre.

And in fact they’re a newly engaged couple themselves.

The two actors had met in the cast of Rupert, Williamson’s revue-style portrait of Rupert Murdoch which opened in Melbourne, toured to Washington and was then re-staged at the Theatre Royal Sydney at the end of last year.

When UK advertising account manager Tim Grayburn met a performance artist from London he faked how he really felt for six months; not how he felt about her, but the fact that he suffered severe clinical depression. When he did talk about it, it was the first time he’d done so in six years.

The creator of Kath Day-Night, television’s ‘foxy moron’, JANE TURNER is to play the lead in Jumpy, a major MTC/STC stage production. FRANK HATHERLEY asks her if she’s feeling jumpy about straight theatre acting.

We meet in the empty Theatre Royal green room between matinee and evening performances of Rupert. David Williamson’s revue-style portrait of Rupert Murdoch opened in Sydney a few days before, so this was only Jane Turner’s second matinee.

Duncan Graham’s psychological drama Cut will season the diverse smorgasbord of entertainment at the 2015 Adelaide Fringe with a pinch of terror.

The intimate 18-seater environment of Holden Street Theatre’s The Manse, together with the show’s immersive installation-style design, will serve to enhance the heart-stopping atmosphere of this Sydney Theatre Award-nominated play. Those lucky enough to be part of the audience can expect a tense and spine-tingling theatre experience.